Where Does the Ownership of a Decision Lie?
探讨Leavitt的路径寻找、问题解决与决策制定及实施三部分模型，分析其如何概括高级管理者的角色，并指出未来高管需具备全局视野和沟通实施能力，可下放问题解决职能，这对高管教育有启示。
SUMMARY This paper examines Leavitt's three‐part model of path‐finding, problem solving and decision making, and implementation in order to explore how far this model encapsulates the senior manager role. The discussion suggests that all three dimensions are important. The author argues that the top manager of the future in an increasingly complex economic world must primarily have good all round vision of the world in which he or she operates and the ability to communicate and implement his plans via subordinates. Increasingly he can delegate much of the problem solving function. This managerial profile implies that the education of the top manager of the future needs re‐examination to ensure that potential senior executives are adequately equipped to guide commercial institutions into the 21st century.